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TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
1019
In the General
Telephone Co., where
even-subscriber has the right
to unlimited calls, the
fee for direct connection
is 80 kronor (£ 4 */<>),
and for simply combined
connection (that is a
connection which is so
combined with another
that both cannot
simultaneously call for a
conversation), 60 kronor,
(i i11») to which for
both must be added an
entrance fee of 50
kronor when the former
tenant has not left
behind him an apparatus
and telephone line. If a
subscriber with direct
connection wishes to bo
marked with a star (*)
in the subscribers’ list,
receiving thereby the
advantage of the
subscribers to the Bell
Telephone Co. having free
conversation with him —
the yearly fee for this is
•20 kronor. These
»star-subscribers» amounted, on
December 31, 1903, to
more than 6,600.
Subscribers outside
Stockholm pay 50 kronor annually, besides a yearly sum of 10 to 15 kronor for the
service. The entrance fee then depends upon the length of the line and amounts
to 10 kronor for the first kilometer, and 40 kronor for each successive kilometer.
The company has lately erected a new exchange which can receive
20,000 subscribers. The staff consisted, on December 31, 1903, of 342 operators,
56 persons on the office staff, 17 civil a. o. engineers, and 243 porters and
workmen, or a total of 658 persons. Since the company was formed, a dividend
of 8 % has been paid annually upon the joint capital (now 2,700,000 kronor): no
higher dividend must be obtained for its telephone business in Sweden, according
to the regulations for this company.
The total value of the Bell Telephone Co. net amounts to about 2,200,000
kronor, and of the General Telephone Co. one to about 8,000,000 kronor.
The whole net of the two Stockholm companies is double-lined
and, at present, one of the largest town-nets in the world with metallic
circuit. Aerial cables are still used to a great extent (58 km. length
of cables; 5,061 km. length of lines), but the underground cables are,
however, preponderant (148 km. length of cables; 32,234 km. length of
Putting down underground conduits.
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